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In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, President Joe Biden ordered aircraft carriers to the Middle East and warned Iran and Hezbollah to keep their distance, seeking to deter a larger regional war. But critics of the president are questioning the effectiveness of his long-term Iran containment strategy over the last few years, which has primarily centered around reducing the risk of war and restarting the Iran nuclear deal.
Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten argues that Biden’s failed Iran strategy has emboldened its proxy militant groups. Weingarten suggests that Biden should hold Iran accountable for the Oct. 7 attack and allow Israel to fully defend itself.
I’ve argued President Joe Biden has Israel in a bear hug. He uses rhetoric to present the appearance of being a staunch ally of the Jewish state while doing everything he can within political reason to undermine it and maintain the Middle East strategy of making Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terror — the strong course. Quickly the bear hug is turning into a mauling.
It’s not just that President Biden claims he has Israel’s back, while refusing to put the mini-Holocaust that Hamas perpetrated at the foot of Iran, thereby protecting the “melocracy,” impose oil sanctions on Iran that fund the regime’s global jihadist network, including its proxies like Hamas; snapback sanctions that would further constrain the regime, exert maximum pressure on our major, non-NATO ally, Qatar, to turn over Hamas’s leaders, force Hamas to free the hostages and surrender or redesignate the Iran-backed Houthis, who have declared war on Israel, as a terrorist group …. or that he responds to [the] global eruption of Jew-hatred masquerading as anti-Zionism by creating a new anti-Islamophobia policy, as if Muslims are the real victims after jihadists perpetrated the greatest slaughter against Jews in 80 years.
The list of ways in which the president provides aid and comfort to Hamas and its proxies, while putting the screws to Israel, is quickly growing…
